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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2016
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Mark Andre Zielinski, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
John Russell Bielawski, Jr., Dearborn, MI (US);
Assignee:
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 9/00 (2006.01); B60R 25/34 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 9/00023 (2013.01); B60R 25/34 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vehicle includes: receiver(s), a timer counting time, memory, and processor(s) configured to: receive a timestamped signal from a fob; compare the timestamp to a time window; reject the timestamp if the timestamp is outside the time window; expand the time window with the counted time; compute the time window as a trigonometric function of the counted time and a predetermined angle.